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All articles filed in kurdish

personal essaysSeptember 1, 2020September 17, 2020

Hope in a Bottle of Honey

Kurdish writer Nurcan Baysal responds to a letter from Nedim Türfent.

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archiveJune 22, 2017

If This is a Lament

Exclusive preview of the title poem, ‘If this is a lament’, from a new chapbook of work by Turkish poet Bejan Matur, translated by Jen Hadfield and Canan Marasligil.

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archiveNovember 28, 2013

A literature in search of its language

Ciwanmerd Kulek charts the ongoing struggle for the Kurdish language, and whether being a language that is now more written than spoken threatens it in new and troubling ways

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